Thursday 15 September 2016

No. 40 - Crochet Basket




















Finally got around to using the fabric yarn that I "made" from a few metres of knit material. Used a 10mm hook.

The original plan was to make a floor cushion, but I soon found that there wouldn't be enough yarn. So I turned it into a basket with handles instead, for Andrew's toy cars. It's great for him to lug around by himself, something he couldn't do when the cars were kept in a big plastic box. I especially like the sound absorption when you throw cars back in the basket - they make only a soft dull chink compared to the great clatter of the plastic box.

The base was single stitched in continuous rounds, starting with a magic circle of 6sc, up to 54 sc for the last round. For the wall, first round was sc into front loop only of the 54sc base round, subsequent were dc in continuous rounds. For the handles, I chained 6 and skipped 6 stitches, spacing the handles equally apart, then finished with sc all around and over the chains.

There's still a goodish-sized ball of the fabric yarn left so I'll probably make a smaller basket with that. It's a very heavy yarn for some reason, so it wouldn't be as ideal for a bag. Nice and sturdy for baskets. Not something I will want to do again in a hurry. Making the yarn was extremely time consuming, and working with it was really very "eat-strength." Ugh. Lesson learnt.

No. 39 - Crochet Phone Case
























Made this one for my new HTC A9 phone, that came free with recontracting the mobile plan.

Black and off-white are Red Heart Miami 100% cotton yarn, wine is Drops Muscat 100% mercerised cotton yarn. I think it was a 3.75mm hook. I really like the Drops Muscat - so sheeny and full looking!

No. 38 - Crochet Arm Warmers




















Sarah wanted these so I made them out of 100% acrylic DK yarn (Stylecraft Special DK), with a 4mm hook.

They're not exactly the same as I just estimated the amount of taper as I went along for each one. I didn't record what I did for the first one in order to replicate it with the second. I started with a foundation chain instead of an ordinary chain so that it would have a bit more stretch. She's about my size now, so I just used my own arm/hand as a gauge to position the thumb hole and size the entire thing.

She's using them in school!